upAdminPg.asp in Advantech WebAccess before 8.1_20160519 allows remote authenticated administrators to obtain sensitive password informatio…

published 2017-05-02 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6745

cvss: 4.9; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 15.4%; EPSS 15.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits: 1; Metasploit

upAdminPg.asp in Advantech WebAccess before 8.1_20160519 allows remote authenticated administrators to obtain sensitive password information via unspecified vectors.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-16-173-01A updated 2025-06-09 cvss 5.7

Advantech WebAccess ActiveX Vulnerabilities (Update A)

Advantech WebAccess <=8.1_20160519
affected: mitigation

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Timeline

2017-01-21 First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/gather/advantech_webaccess_creds)
2017-05-02 Published

Exploit prediction

15.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

Metasploit auxiliary/gather/advantech_webaccess_creds Advantech WebAccess 8.1 Post Authentication Credential Collector metasploit auxiliary, normal rank, 2017-01-21

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	4.9	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-16-173-01
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
zerodayinitiative.com /advisories/ZDI-16-429
third-party-advisory, vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2016-5810
NVD CVE-2016-5810

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Summary